Two Attorneys currently serving as Additional Solicitors General (ASG) at the Attorney General’s (AG) Department were sworn in as President’s Counsel (PC) yesterday (25) at a ceremonial sitting of the Supreme Court.
ASG Dileepa Peeris and ASG Shanil Kularatne were appointed PCs by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake.
ASG Dileepa Peeris and ASG Shanil Kularatne took their oaths as PCs before Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya PC.
President’s Counsel is a professional rank and status conferred on the appointee by the President under Article 33 (cc) of the Constitution. According to the Cconstitutional provision, Attorneys-at-Law who have reached eminence in the profession and have maintained high standards of conduct and professional rectitude are appointed as PCs by the President.
Dileepa Peeris PC holds an LLB Degree from the University of Colombo. After joining the AG’s Department in April 1997, as a State Counsel, he was promoted to Senior State Counsel, Deputy Solicitor General, and subsequently, Additional Solicitor General. Peeris is a distinguished alumnus of St. Thomas’ College, Mt Lavinia.
He has served as the lead Prosecutor in several high-profile cases, including the Gotabaya Rajapaksa Monument case, Maithripala Sirisena Assassination case, Tissa Attanayake case, Chandana Kathriarachchi murder case, Prasanna Ranatunga case, and the Eknaligoda Abduction case.
Shanil Kularatne passed the Attorneys-at-Law (Final) Examination conducted by the Sri Lanka Law College in April 1996. He also holds a certificate in Commercial Law from the School of Law, City University, Hong Kong (April 2002).
With 27 years of experience, Kularatne has extensive expertise in conducting Criminal prosecutions involving complex crimes in the High Court.
He currently represents the State in Criminal Appeals filed in the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court. Kularatne has handled notable cases such as the VAT Scam, the Journalist Mel Gunasekera murder case, and the Lakshman Kadirgamar assassination case.
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